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Re: EchoLoop in Live -- any lick MIDI mapping with the FCB1010?

as usual, I am arriving late to the discussion…

On 18 May 2012, at 3:21 PM, Kris Hartung wrote:

> And now that I think about it, when I was using Mobius in Live before, I 
> didn't even have to do this.
> I just had Mobius getting MIDI data from my FCB directly, independent of 
> Live.

this is because Mobius has a smart MIDI routing thing, right?
maybe I should install that too...
> 
> -----Original Message----- Are you sure about the MIDI track?  I always 
> put Mobius in an Audio
> track because it needs to receive/send audio like an effect.  Then
> I configure a MIDI track to receive from the desired device and send
> to the audio track containing Mobius.  I don't have Live in front of
> me right now but I think you have to click a little "Monitor" button
> on the MIDI track before MIDI will be passed.

thats how I use to do it for tests (I do not use Live in praxis)

On 18 May 2012, at 4:23 PM, Jeff Larson wrote:

> I don't understand the trouble though.  Configuring a Live MIDI track to
> send to an audio track is effectively the same as dragging a virtual MIDI
> cable in Bidule.  Both note ons and offs will get through.

its a lot less obvious to a musician, it took me a while (and probably a 
manual) to find this Live trick
but since its a rare case… I think they should fix the Note-Off thing! or 
do you see any reason...?

On 18 May 2012, at 5:19 PM, andy butler wrote:

> Well, it turns out that the current version of Echoloop on PC doesn't
> respond to midi Note-On at all.
> 
> quite likely it's the same for mac.
> 

no, the OSX version did not have that bug (I am using it, controlled by 
the iPad… :-)

> 
> On 5/18/12 12:57 PM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Kris Hartung 
>> <krispen.hartung@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I don't understand why I would put the looper in  a MIDI track.  I also
>>> tried putting the looper in its own Audio track. Then I created a MIDI
>>> track
>>> that listens to the FCB and sends its output to that Looper track.   
>>> The
>>> EchoLoop still won't listen.
>> 
>> You put the looper on a MIDI track because it is going to be fed
>> external MIDI. I'm not sure a plugin on an Audio Track can receive
>> MIDI directly. But you can try out if it works. Maybe both ways are
>> just as good.
>> 
>> Per
>> 
>> 
>